Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : UCLA:L0079850905
Voices Across America
Anonim
Voices Across America
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The Irish Voice in America
Charles Fanning
Author : Charles Fanning
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813184067
The Irish Voice in America by Charles Fanning Pdf
In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.
Resurgent Voices in Latin America
Edward L. Cleary,Timothy J. Steigenga
Author : Edward L. Cleary,Timothy J. Steigenga
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813534615
Resurgent Voices in Latin America by Edward L. Cleary,Timothy J. Steigenga Pdf
Annotation After more than 500 years of marginalisation, Latin America's forty million Indians have gained political recognition and civil rights. Here, social scientists explore the important role of religion in indigenous activism, showing the ways that religion has strengthened indigenous identity and contributed to the struggle for indigenous rights.
Voices in the Wilderness
Daniel G. Payne
Author : Daniel G. Payne
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ecologists
ISBN : 0874517524
Voices in the Wilderness by Daniel G. Payne Pdf
American nature writers as literary artists & political catalysts.
Voices in America
Bernard Murchland
Author : Bernard Murchland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015050678583
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Voices of Latin America
Tom Gatehouse
Author : Tom Gatehouse
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677988
Voices of Latin America by Tom Gatehouse Pdf
These are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democracy has been shaken; traditional political parties and institutions are stagnating, and there is a growing right-wing extremism overtaking some governments. Yet, in recent years, autonomous social movements have multiplied and thrived. This book presents voices of these movement protagonists themselves, as they describe the major issues, conflicts, and campaigns for social justice in Latin America today. Latin America Bureau, a London-based, independent organization providing news and analysis on the region, spoke to people from fourteen countries, from Mexico to the Southern Cone. The book captures the voices indigenous activists, fighting oil drilling in their homelands; mothers from favelas seeking justice for their children killed by police; opponents of large-scale mining projects; independent journalists working, at great personal risk, to expose corruption and human rights violations; women and LGBT people confronting violence and discrimination; and students demanding their right to a free, universal and high-quality education system. Though their locations and causes are disparate, these people and their movements share learning and activism, and their cooperation helps to link the movements across national borders. Voices of Latin America is essential reading for students, travelers, journalists—anyone with an interest in social justice movements in Latin America.
Voices in the Wilderness
Michael Meadows
Author : Michael Meadows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313096365
Voices in the Wilderness by Michael Meadows Pdf
This book examines race relations in Australia through various media representations over the past 200 years. The early colonial press perpetuated the image of aboriginal people as framed by early explorers, and stereotypes and assumptions still prevail. Print and television news accounts of several key events in recent Australian history are compared and reveal how indigenous sources are excluded from stories about their affairs. Journalists wield extraordinary power in shaping the images of cultures and people, so indigenous people, like those in North America, have turned away from mainstream media and have acquired their own means of cultural production through radio, television, and multimedia. This study concludes with suggestions for addressing media practices to reconcile indigenous and non-indigenous people. This study will appeal to students and scholars studying mass media, particularly journalism and public relations, Australian history, and sociology.
Foreign Voices in the House
J. Patrick Boyer
Author : J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459736863
Foreign Voices in the House by J. Patrick Boyer Pdf
World leaders addressing the House of Commons show us Canada through foreign eyes, in light of Canada’s maturing role in world affairs. Foreign Voices in the House gathers, for the first time, sixty landmark speeches by world leaders and luminaries, with photos and background written by parliamentary veteran J. Patrick Boyer.
Voices in Revolution
John A. Crespi
Author : John A. Crespi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780824833657
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China’s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun’s seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture. Crespi brings the past to life by first examining the ideological changes to poetic voice during China’s early twentieth-century transition from empire to nation. He then traces the emergence of the spoken poem from the May Fourth period to the present, including its mobilization during the Anti-Japanese War, its incorporation into the student protest repertoire during China’s civil war, its role as a conflicted voice of Mao-era revolutionary passion, and finally its current adaptation to the cultural life of China’s party-guided market economy. Voices in Revolution alters the way we read by moving poems off the page and into the real time and space of literary activity. To all readers it offers an accessible yet conceptually fresh and often dramatic narration of China’s modern literary experience. Specialists will appreciate the book’s inclusion of noncanonical texts as well as its innovative interdisciplinary approach.
A Ride Across America
Simon Parker
Author : Simon Parker
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781914613609
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On the eve of the 2024 election, a fascinating - and frequently funny - tale of one man cycling the breadth of America. 'Finally, I emerged onto a sealed asphalt walkway, with twigs in my hair and blood streaming down my legs. Feeling like David Livingstone without a machete, I had tamed the impenetrable woodlands of Eastern Mississippi. Hurrah! But then my sense of adventure sobered suddenly, when a woman in yoga pants and flipflops wandered past, walking a Bichon Frise.' Frustrated by the shallow headlines focusing only on Trump, guns and divisions, award-winning travel writer Simon Parker decided that to better understand the USA he would have to travel across it, slowly. Did the America of his teenage dreams really exist? And was it really as fractured as the headlines suggest? On his journey to find out, Simon cycled 4,373 miles through eleven states and numerous extreme weather events, via mountains and prairie lands, forests and freeways. Along the way he visited homes, schools, churches and rodeos, meeting hundreds of (extra)ordinary Americans behind the clickbait news posts to discover a nation whose portrayal has become vastly oversimplified. Praise for Simon Parker's previous book, Riding Out: 'A truly inspiring journey that celebrates the healing power of adventure. A must-read.' - Levison Wood 'Simon's cycle ride around his own country is a fine demonstration that adventure and transformation begins on your own doorstep.' - Alastair Humphreys
Prejudice Across America
James Waller
Author : James Waller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604730302
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The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from Washington state on a month-long journey. Prejudice Across America is the record of their interaction with the American Indian, Asian American, African American, Hispanic, and Jewish experiences nationwide. Few books have so directly and humanly captured the moment when whites confront the realities of those living as a minority in America. Waller reports here on this innovative and award-winning trek. In Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., his students hear both the official story of prejudice and the street story from people living and dealing with racism on a daily basis. Prejudice Across America is as much the journal of these travelers and what they face as it is a sweeping, up-close survey of the nation's racial landscape. The students walk the cheerless halls of a South Side housing project in Chicago, experience the agitated aftermath of the Olympic Games in Atlanta, and attend a briefing with President Clinton's Initiative on Race. All along the way, they hold wide-ranging group discussions and experience the unpredictable adventure of traveling by train, plane, and public transit. Drawing on student journals and on interviews with community leaders and activists throughout the country, Waller paints a compelling and provocative portrait of the nation's prejudice. In addition, Prejudice Across America includes analyses of the obstacles to reconciliation in each of the cities on the tour's itinerary. As they travel, students confront the thorny issues of race in America, face down stereotypical thoughts, prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors, and uncover more tough questions than easy answers. As Waller and another group of students prepare for a similar trek in 2001, Prejudice Across America will allow readers to join them in introspection and self-discovery in the urban reality of an America where diversity isn't simply a buzzword, but a way of life.
Voices in the Wilderness
John L. Thomas
Author : John L. Thomas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498238977
Voices in the Wilderness by John L. Thomas Pdf
FINALLY, a scholarly description of the development of Black preaching in the United States that is accessible to the average reader, but also contributes to the academic conversation about both style and theological content. Written from the perspective of a seasoned practitioner and tenured practical theologian, Thomas surveys Black preaching as it has responded to various social and historical time periods. Starting with the brutality of chattel slavery, early formations in segregated Southern life, rapid migration to and urbanization in Northern cities, and various events throughout the post-civil rights era, the book gives convincing details and examples of how the Black preacher helped to guide and sustain the masses of African American people through the wilderness of social change. At the heart of the book, three prime examples are presented as models of the real “genius” of Black preaching. The reader will never again think about Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson in the same way. A special chapter is devoted to the contributions of Black women preachers along with a closing chapter that makes new proposals for the future. The book is a provocative and critical analysis of why Black preaching still matters.
Arab Voices in Diaspora
Layla Al Maleh,Layla Maleh
Author : Layla Al Maleh,Layla Maleh
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789042027183
Arab Voices in Diaspora by Layla Al Maleh,Layla Maleh Pdf
Arab Voices in Diaspora offers a wide-ranging overview and an insightful study of the field of anglophone Arab literature produced across the world. The first of its kind, it chronicles the development of this literature from its inception at the turn of the past century until the post 9/11 era. The book sheds light not only on the historical but also on the cultural and aesthetic value of this literary production, which has so far received little scholarly attention. It also seeks to place anglophone Arab literary works within the larger nomenclature of postcolonial, emerging, and ethnic literature, as it finds that the authors are haunted by the same 'hybrid', 'exilic', and 'diasporic' questions that have dogged their fellow postcolonialists. Issues of belonging, loyalty, and affinity are recognized and dealt with in the various essays, as are the various concerns involved in cultural and relational identification. The contributors to this volume come from different national backgrounds and share in examining the nuances of this emerging literature. Authors discussed include Elmaz Abinader, Diana Abu-Jaber, Leila Aboulela, Leila Ahmed, Rabih Alameddine, Edward Atiyah, Shaw Dallal, Ibrahim Fawal, Fadia Faqir, Khalil Gibran, Suheir Hammad, Loubna Haikal, Nada Awar Jarrar, Jad El Hage, Lawrence Joseph, Mohja Kahf, Jamal Mahjoub, Hisham Matar, Dunya Mikhail, Samia Serageldine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ameen Rihani, Mona Simpson, Ahdaf Soueif, and Cecile Yazbak. Contributors: Victoria M. Abboud, Diya M. Abdo, Samaa Abdurraqib, Marta Cariello, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Cristina Garrigós, Lamia Hammad, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Waïl S. Hassan, Richard E. Hishmeh, Syrine Hout, Layla Al Maleh, Brinda J. Mehta, Dawn Mirapuri, Geoffrey P. Nash, Boulus Sarru, Fadia Fayez Suyoufie
Voices in the Wilderness
G. McLeod Bryan
Author : G. McLeod Bryan
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865546398
Voices in the Wilderness by G. McLeod Bryan Pdf
In this book, G. McLeod Bryan gives firsthand accounts of his interactions with five of the most important prophetic voices of the twentieth century: Martin Luther King Jr., anti-apartheid minister C. F. Beyers Naude, Clarence Jordan - New Testament scholar and founder of the interracial farm community known as Koinonia Farm - Czech pastor Jaroslav Stolar, and religion scholar Huston Smith. In a century filled with violence, war, and oppression, these five figures appealed to the freedom of conscience in order to reach beyond the limitations of institutional Christianity to reclaim a more authentic following of Christ.
Race across America
Charles B. Kastner
Author : Charles B. Kastner
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780815654421
Race across America by Charles B. Kastner Pdf
2020 Peace Corps Writers Paul Cowan Award for the Best Book of Non-Fiction On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the signature outfit that earned him his nickname—a white towel tied around his head, white shorts, and a white shirt—Gardner wore an American flag, a reminder to all who saw him run through the Jim Crow South that he was an American and the leader of the greatest footrace in the world. Kastner traces Gardner’s remarkable journey from his birth in 1897 in Birmingham, Alabama, to his success in Seattle, Washington, as one of the top long-distance runners in the region, and finally to his participation in two transcontinental footraces where he risked his life, facing a barrage of harassment for having the audacity to compete with white runners. Kastner shows how Gardner’s participation became a way to protest the endemic racism he faced, heralding the future of nonviolent efforts that would be instrumental to the civil rights movement. Shining a bright light on his extraordinary athletic accomplishments and his heroism on the dusty roads of America in the 1920s, Kastner gives Gardner and other black bunioneers the attention they so richly deserve.